StepStone Group

Director - Working Capital & Assistant Treasurer

StepStone Group$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience in developing, coaching, and mentoring teams.
  • Knowledge in process improvement, business operations, project management, and workflow implementations.
  • Strong attention to detail, with excellent organization and follow-up capabilities.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and relationships in a matrixed organization.
  • Proficient in preparing financial statements, key metric reports, and cash flow projections.
  • Understanding of US GAAP, with IFRS knowledge as a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and lead the accounts receivable team, ensuring high performance and collaboration.
  • Establish the company's end-to-end treasury function, including cash positioning and liquidity forecasting.
  • Develop and implement treasury policies, procedures, and controls for effective governance.
  • Oversee global cash management activities, ensuring compliance with regulations and optimizing cash flow.
  • Establish a centralized order entry function, ensuring accurate and compliant customer contract processing.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the order-to-cash lifecycle, focusing on reducing errors and enhancing efficiency.
  • Build and mentor teams supporting Treasury and Order Entry, fostering career development.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a strategic finance function within the company.
  • Engagement in a diverse set of financial operations including treasury, cash management, and billing processes.
  • Hands-on role with direct impact on financial operations and cash flow optimization.
  • Collaboration with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Potential for professional growth within a dynamic business environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Director, Working Capital & Assistant Treasurer is a senior finance leadership role responsible for end-to-end ownership of the company's treasury function and centralized order entry operations, with a core mandate to optimize liquidity, reduce working capital friction, and strengthen order-to-cash execution. This role partners closely with Accounting, FP&A, Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, and executive leadership to ensure disciplined cash management, scalable controls, and high-quality revenue and billing operations as the business grows.

The role combines strategic treasury leadership with operational ownership of Order-to-Cash Enablement (Centralized Order Entry through to AR), including the expectation to be hands-on working closely with the team day to day. The role will be serving as a trusted advisor on liquidity, risk, and working capital while building durable processes, systems, and teams.

This role will report to the Senior Director - Accounting and Finance.

Job Responsibilities

Team Leadership & People Management
  • Manage, provide leadership and strategic direction for the accounts receivable team, ensuring high levels of training, performance, and collaboration.
  • Foster a team culture that supports personal growth and continuous improvement, including performance reviews, regular feedback, and career development.
  • Lead the recruitment of new team members and oversee resource planning to ensure efficient scaling and allocation of resources.

Treasury & Cash Management (Full Function Ownership)
  • Own and lead the company's end-to-end treasury function, including daily cash positioning, liquidity forecasting, and short- and long-term cash planning to support operational and strategic needs.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive treasury policies, procedures, and controls, including bank account governance, authorized signers, and standard operating procedures.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for banking relationships and financial institutions, including account openings/closings, fee management, service optimization, and performance reviews.
  • Oversee global cash management activities, including cash pooling structures, intercompany funding, and optimization of idle cash while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Manage foreign currency exposure in partnership with senior leadership, including identification of FX risk, execution of approved hedging strategies, and related accounting and reporting.
  • Oversee treasury-related accounting activities, including bank and cash reconciliations, interest accruals, FX remeasurement, and coordination with the general ledger team.
  • Prepare and present cash flow analysis, liquidity reporting, and treasury insights for executive leadership and Board or investor reporting as required.
  • Ensure strong SOX/internal controls over treasury activities, proactively remediating control gaps and partnering with internal and external auditors.

Centralized Order Entry
  • Establish and own a centralized order entry function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant entry of customer contracts and orders into the company's billing and ERP systems.
  • Define and enforce order entry policies and controls aligned with revenue recognition, billing accuracy, and customer master data integrity.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, and Revenue Accounting to ensure contracts, amendments, pricing, and billing terms are correctly interpreted and operationalized.
  • Ensure orders are reviewed for credit approval, pricing accuracy, tax treatment, and billing readiness prior to invoicing.
  • Oversee master data governance for customers, billing schedules, and contract attributes that impact invoicing, collections, and revenue processes.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the order-to-cash lifecycle, reducing billing errors, rework, revenue leakage, and downstream collections issues.
  • Implement and optimize systems, workflows, and controls to support scalable order entry operations as the business grows.
  • Develop reporting and KPIs to monitor order quality, cycle times, error rates, and downstream financial impact, using insights to improve cross-functional execution.

Leadership, Systems & Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Build, mentor, and scale teams supporting Treasury and Order Entry, establishing clear accountability, segregation of duties, and career development paths.
  • Lead or support implementations and enhancements of treasury workstations, ERP platforms, billing systems, and automation initiatives impacting cash, orders, and billing.
  • Partner with FP&A, Accounting, and Operations to support working capital optimization, including cash flow forecasting, DSO/DPO improvement, and liquidity planning.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on liquidity, financial risk, customer billing quality, and operational scalability.


Qualifications
  • Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience in developing, coaching, and mentoring teams.
  • Knowledge and background in process improvement, business operations, project management, change management, and workflow implementations.
  • Strong attention to detail, with a high degree of organization and follow-up capabilities.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Skilled at managing multiple priorities and relationships in a matrixed organization.
  • Ability to prepare monthly financial statements, key metric reports, budgets, forecasts, cash flow projections and analyses.
  • Understanding of US GAAP with IFRS as a benefit.

Education and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, business, finance or related field is required.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in treasury, accounting, working capital, and/or order-to-cash is required.
  • Supplemental experience in accounting and/or finance is preferred.
  • At least 3 years of experience in a leadership role overseeing both accounts payable and receivable functions with a proven track record of managing AP/AR teams and optimizing financial operations.
  • Strong experience with financial software and ERP systems.

Travel Requirements
  • Typical travel for this position will include quarterly travel, to attend internal and external meetings, however, this may vary based on business needs and opportunities.

Fair Labor Standards Act Status
  • Salaried Exempt: Personnel will earn their regular salary and not be entitled to overtime pay when they work over 40 hours in a work week.

Supervisory Responsibilities
  • This role will oversee the entire Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams, to include managers and their direct reports.


Additional Information

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About StepStone Group

StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm that provides customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to institutional investors. The company was founded in 2007 and has since grown to become one of the largest private markets investment firms in the world. StepStone Group has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, and manages over $300 billion in assets. The company's clients include pension funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices. StepStone Group is committed to providing its clients with superior investment performance and exceptional service.
Learn more about StepStone Group
Size
563 employees
Market Cap
$2.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$71.7 million
5 Year Trend
+52.6%
Revenue
$572.6 million
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